Caffee and the headless miner Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Citing Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk's Wisconsin Road Guide to Haunted Locations, Driftless Times reports that objects move, a headless miner appears, and that manager Walker Calvert (1978–82) said Caffee played pranks on him. Source: Driftless Times, 2024.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
The inn and saloon were built in 1836 and later joined. William Caffee, who had shot a man, hid under its floorboards and was hanged nearby on November 1, 1842, before a crowd of about 5,000 (Driftless Times, 2024). The inn closed in 1957 and reopened in 1974 (Wikipedia).
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Then and now
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Public access
Open to the public Travel Wisconsin lists it as a 12-room inn with a pub and event space, phone 608-553-0728 (Travel Wisconsin). The inn's own website returned an error at this check. Last checked: Nov 1, 2026.
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